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Lamentations Chapter 4

Lamentations
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Lamentations

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In this chapter the people of Jerusalem are overwhelmed by grief as the city faces imminent destruction and the king is taken captive. The text records their lamentation and God’s promise that He will bring them back from the valley of the shadow of death. It emphasizes the pain of loss and the hope of future restoration.

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(1) How is the gold become dim! how is the most fine gold changed! the stones of the sanctuary are poured out in the top of every street.
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II Kings 25:9II Kings 25:10Isaiah 1:21Isaiah 14:12Ezekiel 7:19Ezekiel 7:20Ezekiel 7:21Ezekiel 7:22Lamentations 2:19Jeremiah 52:13Matthew 24:2Mark 13:2

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I Chronicles 29:2I Kings 7:10Exodus 39:28I Kings 5:17

(2) The precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold, how are they esteemed as earthen pitchers, the work of the hands of the potter!
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Isaiah 51:18Zechariah 9:13Lamentations 2:21Lamentations 5:12Isaiah 30:14Jeremiah 19:11Jeremiah 22:28Romans 9:21Romans 9:22Romans 9:23II Corinthians 4:7II Timothy 2:20

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Exodus 39:28Revelation 18:12

(3) Even the sea monsters draw out the breast, they give suck to their young ones: the daughter of my people is become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness.
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Lamentations 2:20Lamentations 4:10Leviticus 26:29Deuteronomy 28:52Deuteronomy 28:53Deuteronomy 28:54Deuteronomy 28:55Deuteronomy 28:56Deuteronomy 28:57II Kings 6:26II Kings 6:27II Kings 6:28

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Deuteronomy 22:6Luke 12:53Judges 9:54Job 39:30Genesis 36:2Leviticus 18:17

(4) The tongue of the sucking child cleaveth to the roof of his mouth for thirst: the young children ask bread, and no man breaketh it unto them.
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Psalms 22:15Psalms 137:6Lamentations 1:11Lamentations 2:11Lamentations 2:12Deuteronomy 32:24Matthew 7:9Matthew 7:10Matthew 7:11

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Matthew 2:13II Samuel 12:18I Corinthians 13:11Deuteronomy 22:6I Samuel 25:8Matthew 2:20

(5) They that did feed delicately are desolate in the streets: they that were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills.
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Deuteronomy 28:54Deuteronomy 28:55Deuteronomy 28:56Isaiah 3:16Isaiah 3:17Isaiah 3:18Isaiah 3:19Isaiah 3:20Isaiah 3:21Isaiah 3:22Isaiah 3:23Isaiah 3:24

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Jeremiah 12:11Jeremiah 33:10Ezekiel 29:12

(6) For the punishment of the iniquity of the daughter of my people is greater than the punishment of the sin of Sodom, that was overthrown as in a moment, and no hands stayed on her.
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Isaiah 1:9Isaiah 1:10Ezekiel 16:48Ezekiel 16:49Ezekiel 16:50Matthew 11:23Matthew 11:24Luke 10:12Luke 12:47Lamentations 4:9Genesis 19:25Daniel 9:12

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Ezekiel 14:10Lamentations 4:22Zechariah 14:19Luke 12:53Genesis 4:13Leviticus 26:41

(7) Her Nazarites were purer than snow, they were whiter than milk, they were more ruddy in body than rubies, their polishing was of sapphire:
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Numbers 6:2Numbers 6:3Numbers 6:4Numbers 6:5Numbers 6:6Numbers 6:7Numbers 6:8Numbers 6:9Numbers 6:10Numbers 6:11Numbers 6:12Numbers 6:13

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I Corinthians 15:44Luke 11:34I Corinthians 12:12

(8) Their visage is blacker than a coal; they are not known in the streets: their skin cleaveth to their bones; it is withered, it is become like a stick.
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Lamentations 5:10Job 30:17Job 30:18Job 30:19Job 30:30Joel 2:6Nahum 2:10Lamentations 4:1Lamentations 4:2Ruth 1:19Ruth 1:20Job 2:12

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Jeremiah 8:1II Samuel 21:13II Kings 23:18Job 19:20Ezekiel 37:16Ezekiel 37:19

(9) They that be slain with the sword are better than they that be slain with hunger: for these pine away, stricken through for want of the fruits of the field.
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Leviticus 26:39Ezekiel 24:23Ezekiel 33:10

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Ezekiel 32:25Deuteronomy 21:1Numbers 25:14II Kings 11:2Isaiah 22:2Isaiah 27:7

(10) The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children: they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
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Lamentations 4:3Lamentations 2:20II Kings 6:26II Kings 6:27II Kings 6:28II Kings 6:29Isaiah 49:15Lamentations 3:48Deuteronomy 28:56Deuteronomy 28:57

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Luke 12:53II Kings 16:15Genesis 36:2Leviticus 18:17I Kings 11:1Esther 2:15

(11) The LORD hath accomplished his fury; he hath poured out his fierce anger, and hath kindled a fire in Zion, and it hath devoured the foundations thereof.
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Lamentations 4:22Lamentations 2:8Lamentations 2:17Deuteronomy 32:21Deuteronomy 32:22Deuteronomy 32:23Deuteronomy 32:24Deuteronomy 32:25Jeremiah 6:11Jeremiah 6:12Jeremiah 7:20Jeremiah 9:9

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Jeremiah 42:18Ezekiel 5:13Jeremiah 44:6Isaiah 42:25Isaiah 51:13Jeremiah 7:20

(12) The kings of the earth, and all the inhabitants of the world, would not have believed that the adversary and the enemy should have entered into the gates of Jerusalem.
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Deuteronomy 29:24Deuteronomy 29:25Deuteronomy 29:26Deuteronomy 29:27Deuteronomy 29:28I Kings 9:8I Kings 9:9Psalms 48:4Psalms 48:5Psalms 48:6

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John 15:19Joshua 17:11Judges 1:27Judges 1:33Revelation 21:13James 4:4

(13) For the sins of her prophets, and the iniquities of her priests, that have shed the blood of the just in the midst of her,
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Lamentations 2:14Jeremiah 5:31Jeremiah 6:13Jeremiah 14:14Jeremiah 23:11Jeremiah 23:12Jeremiah 23:13Jeremiah 23:14Jeremiah 23:15Jeremiah 23:16Jeremiah 23:17Jeremiah 23:18

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Leviticus 19:36Ezekiel 45:10I John 1:9

(14) They have wandered as blind men in the streets, they have polluted themselves with blood, so that men could not touch their garments.
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Deuteronomy 28:28Deuteronomy 28:29Isaiah 29:10Isaiah 29:11Isaiah 29:12Isaiah 56:10Isaiah 59:9Isaiah 59:10Isaiah 59:11Micah 3:6Micah 3:7Matthew 15:14

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Exodus 29:21Leviticus 8:30Matthew 15:14Ezekiel 44:19Isaiah 42:19

(15) They cried unto them, Depart ye; it is unclean; depart, depart, touch not: when they fled away and wandered, they said among the heathen, They shall no more sojourn there.
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Isaiah 52:11Leviticus 5:2Isaiah 14:25Isaiah 54:10Jeremiah 37:9I Corinthians 7:15

(16) The anger of the LORD hath divided them; he will no more regard them: they respected not the persons of the priests, they favoured not the elders.
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Genesis 49:7Leviticus 26:33Leviticus 26:34Leviticus 26:35Leviticus 26:36Leviticus 26:37Leviticus 26:38Leviticus 26:39Deuteronomy 28:25Deuteronomy 28:64Deuteronomy 28:65Deuteronomy 32:26

(17) As for us, our eyes as yet failed for our vain help: in our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save us.
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Lamentations 1:19II Kings 24:7Isaiah 20:5Isaiah 30:1Isaiah 30:2Isaiah 30:3Isaiah 30:4Isaiah 30:5Isaiah 30:6Isaiah 30:7Isaiah 31:1Isaiah 31:2

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Jeremiah 5:15Psalms 60:11Psalms 108:12

(18) They hunt our steps, that we cannot go in our streets: our end is near, our days are fulfilled; for our end is come.
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Lamentations 3:52I Samuel 24:14II Kings 25:4II Kings 25:5Job 10:16Psalms 140:11Jeremiah 16:16Jeremiah 39:4Jeremiah 39:5Jeremiah 52:7Jeremiah 52:8Jeremiah 52:9

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Genesis 47:21Exodus 25:19Exodus 26:28Exodus 37:8Deuteronomy 13:7Isaiah 2:7

(19) Our persecutors are swifter than the eagles of the heaven: they pursued us upon the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness.
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Deuteronomy 28:49Isaiah 5:26Isaiah 5:27Isaiah 5:28Isaiah 30:16Isaiah 30:17Jeremiah 4:13Hosea 8:1Habakkuk 1:8Matthew 24:27Matthew 24:28Amos 2:14

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Joshua 11:21Zechariah 6:1Malachi 1:3I Samuel 23:25

(20) The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of the LORD, was taken in their pits, of whom we said, Under his shadow we shall live among the heathen.
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Lamentations 2:9Genesis 2:7Genesis 44:30II Samuel 18:3I Samuel 12:3I Samuel 12:5I Samuel 16:6I Samuel 24:6I Samuel 24:10I Samuel 26:9I Samuel 26:16II Samuel 1:14

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Romans 14:8Galatians 2:20

(21) Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom, that dwellest in the land of Uz; the cup also shall pass through unto thee: thou shalt be drunken, and shalt make thyself naked.
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Psalms 83:3Psalms 83:4Psalms 83:5Psalms 83:6Psalms 83:7Psalms 83:8Psalms 83:9Psalms 83:10Psalms 83:11Psalms 83:12Psalms 137:7Ecclesiastes 11:9

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Zephaniah 3:14Luke 12:53Isaiah 51:17Jeremiah 51:7Genesis 36:2Leviticus 18:17

(22) The punishment of thine iniquity is accomplished, O daughter of Zion; he will no more carry thee away into captivity: he will visit thine iniquity, O daughter of Edom; he will discover thy sins.
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Lamentations 4:6Isaiah 40:2Jeremiah 46:27Jeremiah 46:28Jeremiah 50:20Isaiah 52:1Isaiah 60:18Jeremiah 32:40Ezekiel 37:28Lamentations 4:21Psalms 137:7

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Luke 12:53Lamentations 4:6Genesis 36:2Leviticus 18:17Leviticus 20:17Ezekiel 14:10

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